June 2016

FreeBSD Project: Under the HoodHostingAdvice.com,
Alexandra LeslieWith over 400 volunteer devs at its helm, the FreeBSD
Project is a dynamic force that puts the control in
administrators' hands. Project Committer Allan Jude has
been a fan of the project since 2002. He discusses the
system's internal structure and the feature functionality
that drew him in — contributing to its documentation
and then to its development — and what he's working
on now, more than a decade later.

FreeBSD now available in Azure MarketplaceMicrosoft Azure Blog,
Jason AndersonMicrosoft excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD
10.3 as a ready-made VM image available directly from the
Azure Marketplace. This means that not only can you quickly
bring-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure, but also that in the event
you need technical support, Microsoft support engineers can
assist.

July 2015

March 2015

Running FreeBSDÂ on the server: a sysadmin
speaksiTWire,
Sam VargheseFor years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent
times, there have been murmurings among some veterans
— long-time users — after the introduction of
systemd, the init system that seems to overstep its
boundaries.

December 2014

Get started with FreeBSD: A brief intro for Linux
usersInfoWorld,
Paul VeneziaA brief introduction to FreeBSD for curious Linux users.
Covers the installation and updating process, building a
basic firewall, installing binary packages, and finally
installing and configuring a typical web stack with Apache,
PHP, and MySQL.

October 2014

Cavium to Sponsor FreeBSDÂ ARMv8 Based
ImplementationPR Newswire,
Cavium, Inc.Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data
center, cloud, wired and wireless networking announced today
that it is collaborating with the FreeBSDÂ Foundation to
develop and deliver the first ARMv8 reference design and
implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System based on the
ThunderX workload optimized processor family for next
generation Data Center and Cloud workloads.

September 2014

Parole de TuxÂ : Tux et FreeBSD [french]Captain Posix,
Captain Posix"Parole de Tux" is a Belgian monthly podcast which talks about
news and technical topics regarding Free and Open Source
Software. For the first time, this episode is dedicated to
FreeBSD. The guest, a FreeBSD developer, sums up the history of the
BSDs and their differences. He then briefly explains similarities
and differences between a typical Linux distribution and FreeBSD
before moving on to the main topic: the graphics stack, and how
FreeBSD performs in this area.

McKusick Denies FreeBSD Lagging on SecurityITWire,
Sam VargheseKirk McKusick denies that FreeBSD is trailing behind when it
comes to security practices, asserting that over the past
decade FreeBSD has made good design and engineering choices in
random(4).

June 2013

February 2013

2012 - A BSD Year in RetrospectiveOSnews,
Julian DjamilA retrospective of all the exciting developments in the BSD-family
of operating systems in 2012, focusing on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
and Dragonfly BSD.

Netflix Open Connect Network: FreeBSD, Not Linuxphoronix,
Michael LarabelThis week Netflix announced their Open Connect Network as
their own open CDN (Content Distribution Network), but
rather than using Linux as the base for this open-source
platform, they decided to use FreeBSD.

May 2012

Why Should You Use FreeBSD? Here's Some Reasonsphoronix,
Michael LarabelFreeBSD is wondering why are you using FreeBSD. David
Chisnall of the FreeBSD project is working on updating their
advocacy material regarding this leading *BSD operating
system. As such, he asked on the mailing list "Why Are
You Using FreeBSD?"

Colocation Provider NYI Launches East Coast Mirror for
FreeBSD FoundationThe WHIR,
Nicole HendersonColocation provider NYI announced on Friday that it has
launched the East Coast mirror for The FreeBSD
Foundation. "FreeBSD has been a critical component of
everything we do," Phillip Koblence, VP operations, NYI
said in a statement. "We look upon this launch as our
way of giving back to a community whose open source projects
have enabled us to craft customized solutions for our
customers from the inside out."

FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCCphoronix,
Michael LarabelAs indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's
Clang compiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD
operating system. The developers are also making much
progress in a GNU-free C++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're
aiming for Clang as the default C/C++ compiler, deprecate
GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++ stack.

FreeBSD Achieved A Lot In Q1'2012phoronix,
Michael LarabelFor the first three months of the 2012 calendar year, the
FreeBSD project achieved a lot when it came to advancing
their open operating system. Here's some of the interesting
highlights from their quarterly status report.

July 2011

March 2011

PC-BSD 8.2 reviewLinuxBSDos.com,
LinuxBSDos.comLinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation (especially at the
disk encryption features), system configuration and system
management (including the installation of third party
software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of
PC-BSDÂ 8.2.

February 2011

FreeBSD 8.2 expands ZFS supportDatamation.com,
Sean Michael KernerThe author looks at the status and the future of ZFS under
FreeBSD. The information is based on interviews the website
did with FreeBSD developer Josh Paetzel and Matt Olander
from iXsystems.

August 2010

PC-BSD 8.1 reviewLinuxBSDos.com,
LinuxBSDos.comLinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation, system
configuration and system management (including the
installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's
PBI system) of PC-BSDÂ 8.1.